Given a text, write a compressed version of it in a single sentence.

The heavily decorated, including those who won the Medal of Honor, Distinguished Service Cross, Navy Cross, Air Force Cross, Distinguished Service Medal, Silver Star, or Purple Heart;
The heavily decorated, including those who won the Medal of Honor, Distinguished Service Cross, Navy Cross, or Purple Heart;

Little ones, like Baby Jessica, caught in the struggle between adoptive and birth parents. Older kids, like Tracy and Kerry, left homeless after a recent murder-suicide in Indianapolis claimed Mom and Dad.
Little ones caught in the struggle between adoptive and birth parents. Older kids, left homeless after a murder-suicide in Indianapolis claimed parents.

"If I have one cavil with the book, it is that there is no conceivable reason for the subtitle to use an before historical."

It's that there is no conceivable reason for the subtitle to use an before historical.

